Another way to work-around this problem is to add a large (empty) file on the backup volume (dd if=/dev/zero of=/backup/blob count=1000 bs=1M). Then, whenever rdiff-backup fails when the device becomes full, remove that file and you can run --check-destination-dir to fix up the repository.
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